We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

- Susan Moody

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

- Susan Moody

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.

- Susan Moody

You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

- Susan Moody

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

- Susan Moody

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

- Susan Moody

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

- Susan Moody

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not plac…

- Susan Moody